Bridgewater High School
Secondary · Academy converter · Ages 11–16 · Warrington
Last distance offered · Year 7 2026
Every applicant was offered a place
From Warrington Borough Council · offers on 2 March 2026
2019–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Bridgewater High School is a secondary school in Warrington for ages 11–16 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 11 October 2022. Warrington has published a last distance offered for this school for Year 7 2019 to 2026 entry.
Bridgewater High School catchment area: last distance offered
Parents often call this the catchment area: it's how far from the school the last child offered a place lived. It changes every year.
| Entry | Last distance offered |
|---|---|
| Year 7 2026 | Every applicant was offered a place |
| Year 7 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2023 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2022 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2021 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2019 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- Year 7 2026 had 292 first-choice applications for 358 offers; 289 offers went to first-choice families, and 3 first-choice families (1%) were not offered a place.
- For Year 7 in 2026, 69 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower, and it had 0.8 first choices per offer, the 3rd lowest of 12 Warrington secondary schools.
- 2024/25 GCSE English and maths: 58% of pupils got grade 5 or above (England 45%), 2nd highest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest secondary schools in Warrington.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Warrington schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Broomfields Road, Appleton, Warrington, WA4 3AE
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–16
- Sector
- State-funded
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- Warrington
- Pupils on roll
- 1,683 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 14% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 17.2
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 11 October 2022
Strengths
- “Bridgewater High School is a welcoming and friendly school.”
- “Leaders and staff have high expectations of pupils’ behaviour and achievement.”
- “In most subjects, pupils, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), learn well.”
To improve
- “However, the proportion of pupils studying the English Baccalaureate suite of subjects is low.”
- “However, in a very small number of subjects, some teachers do not deliver the curriculum as well as they should.”
- “This prevents some pupils from learning more in those subjects.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 22 November 2022 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Exam results
| Measure | School | England |
|---|---|---|
| GCSE English and maths, grade 5 or above (2024/25) | 58% | 45% |
| Attainment 8 score (2024/25) | 51.8 | 46 |
Department for Education school performance data. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Year 7 entry: 292 first-preference applications, 358 offers in total, 289 offers to first-preference applicants.
Department for Education, school-level applications and offers, figures on national offer day. Earlier years are in the pass.
Nearby secondary schools
Straight-line distance, in Warrington.
- Sir Thomas Boteler Church of England High School 1.2 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Cardinal Newman Catholic High School 1.9 mi Good Last distance published
- Aldridge UTC Warrington 2.6 mi Not judged
- St Gregory's Catholic High School 2.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- King's Leadership Academy Warrington 3.1 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Beamont Collegiate Academy 3.1 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Padgate Academy 3.4 mi Good Last distance published
- Penketh High School 3.5 mi Standards maintained Last distance published